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SUBMITTER: van Albada ME
PROVIDER: S-EPMC10471981 | biostudies-literature | 2023
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
van Albada Mirjam E ME Shah Pratik P Derks Terry G J TGJ Fuchs Sabine S Jans Judith J M JJM McLin Valérie V van der Doef Hubert P J HPJ
Frontiers in endocrinology 20230818
In physiological glucose homeostasis, the liver plays a crucial role in the extraction of glucose from the portal circulation and storage as glycogen to enable release through glycogenolysis upon fasting. In addition, insulin secreted by the pancreas is partly eliminated from the systemic circulation by hepatic first-pass. Therefore, patients with a congenital porto-systemic shunt present a unique combination of (a) postabsorptive hyperinsulinemic hypoglycaemia (HH) because of decreased insulin ...[more]